1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Presented at the Los Angeles Times
BIOGRAPHY
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris
Lessing (HarperCollins)
CURRENT INTEREST
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered
He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams (Dutton)
FICTION
The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf)
HISTORY
Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising
in America by Jackson Lears (Basic Books)
MYSTERY/THRILLER
[Award added in 2000]
POETRY
The Inferno of Dante by Robert Pinsky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson (Island Press)
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
[Award added in 1998]
THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION
American Studies by Mark Merlis (Houghton Mifflin)
THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
Stephen J. Pyne